Improved multiple sponge



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Letters Patent No. 101,776, dated Apriz12,'1s7o.

IMPROVED MULTIPLE SPONG-E.

The Schedule referred to in these Lettera Patent and making part o! the same.

To all -whom it may concern:

. ing part of this specification.

Figure 1 represents a face view of my improved multiple sponge.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal section ofthe same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding s. The object of this invention is to make small spon ges more useful, and to increase their value.

At present large Sponges, such as are used for washing coaches, Stel, are very expensive, the value increasing with the size, while small Sponges are com parati rel y useless, A

My 'invention consists in uniting a suitable number of small pieces of sponge into, i. e., to form one large sponge, by means of fastening devices which are eutirely concealed.

' The entire sponge-surface ofthe multiple sponge is therefore applicable to use. A large sponge, thus composed of maly small pieces, becomes, practically, as valuable and useful as the naturally large Sponges now so highly prized.

A A, in the drawing, are small Sponges, or pieces of sponge, united together in one large sponge by means of thread, or other equivalent substance. The thread may be sewed or woven through the sponge, and should be entirely concealed in said sponge, except, of course, its ends. The thread should be so applied as to firmly tie the several pieces of sponge together and to hold them foruse.

The large sponge, besides utilizing the hitherto worthless pieces, will be more durable than the large Sponges now employed, its fractions being more firmly held together.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The multiple sponge, composed of a series of small pieces of sponge, which are connected by concealed thread, as set forth. v

HAMlLTONY ERASTUSv SMITH.

Witnesses:

GEORGE W. MABEE, ALEX F. ROBERTS. 

